Meet Our Team
Julie Weise
University of Oregon
Julie M. Weise is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon, where she specializes in Mexican American history and global migration. Her first book, Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910, was reinterpreted by Latinx youth in the Nuestro South podcast and social media project with support from the Whiting Foundation. Her best classroom experiences are always in her bilingual Latinx History class, “Latinos in the Americas,” which she developed together with Claudia Holguin Mendoza in 2014.
Claudia Holguín Mendoza
University of California, Riverside
Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) is Associate Professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of California, Riverside. She specializes in the sociolinguistics of race in the Mexican borderlands and Greater Mexico as well as critical pedagogies for the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language. She publishes in both English and Spanish and her work has appeared in journals such as International Multilingual Research Journal, Hispania, Studies in Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics, Identities, and Frontera Norte.
Jorge Leal
University of California, Riverside
Dr. Jorge N. Leal is assistant professor of Mexican American/Chicanx history at the University of California, Riverside. As a cultural and urban historian, he examines how transnational youth cultures have reshaped Southern California Latina/o/x communities. Dr. Leal is the curator of The Rock Archivo LÁ, an online collective repository that collects, shares, and examines L.A. Latina/o/x youth cultures ephemera. Dr. Leal teaches courses on urban history, race, gender, and culture using English, Spanish, and Spanglish primary sources such as songs, films, underground ‘zines, and memes.
Our Funders
Teach in Spanglish is generously supported by OpenOregon Educational Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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